Samoa Joe talks about his unique deal with WWE

Over the last week both Samoa Joe and Chris Hero joined James Kee and Dustin Perie on the SmashCast ahead of their big fight on Saturday, June 6 in Toronto, Canada for Smash Wrestling. The charity event’s proceeds will go to ALS Canada in addition to Chris Hero competing in a two hours plus gauntlet match on Sunday, June 7 with all donations going to the same cause.

Samoa Joe spoke about a wide variety of topics, including:

On now being ‘WWE Super Star Samoa Joe’?:

“Careers and fate have a funny way of working, and I guess a lot of people, myself included at some point, did’t think that those were words that would be said together – but here we are now and I’m very happy with it.”

On his unique new contract:

“It’s a real new concept and I was definitely the test case for the new deal that I have. And it was definitely something that they felt would be beneficial for wrestlers who have an established career and aren’t really new to the game, in a sense of speaking. […] I was really mattered that I was a part of that first initial run of test cases to try that concept out, and I hope it leads to over very talented individuals getting a chance to join the ranks of WWE.”

Also:

* What is his friendship with John Cena like today?

* What was going through his head before he made his appearance on NXT Takeover?

* How does he feel about the positive response so far?He is advertised for an ROH TV taping, will he ‘pull a Rick Rude’ and turn up on two shows at once?

* How did he go about arranging to keep the Samoa Joe name?

* What will his character be like that he will play on TellTales Game Of Thrones?

* What is his favourite TellTales game right now?

* How hyped is he for Fallout 4?

* Does Joe think he could beat Rich Swann at No Mercy?

* What are his thoughts on wrestling Chris Hero at Smash Wrestling in Toronto this Saturday?